A $2.5 million Medical Research Park and $10 million in street resurfacing projects will be on the table tonight when the City Council convenes for a specially called meeting to continue planning Greenville’s economic future.

Also on the agenda for the meeting at 6 p.m. at City Hall is a motion to host two city-funded early-voting sites for the 2013 municipal election at the Pitt Area Transit System Conference Room at 1717 W. Fifth St. and on the campus of East Carolina University.

The medical research park and resurfacing investments are seen as major infrastructure improvements needed to propel the city into becoming the economic and medical hub of eastern North Carolina.

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